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Only the bad man is alone.

Denis Diderot

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Command Justice Obedience Virtue
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
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Poetry Savage Scale
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.
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Beg Compassionate Man Poor Possible Shame
There are cats and cats.
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Cat One Liner
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
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Anand Thakur
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the “enthusiasm for truth and justice” using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.
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Dedication Enthusiasm Goodness Life Sense
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
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Destroy Man Pronounce
We are constantly railing against the passions; we ascribe to them all of man’s afflictions, and we forget that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
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Himself Passion Pleasure Source
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur

Only the bad man is alone.

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